Federal Court Action on Pearsall Plan Attacked
A federal court challenge to North Carolina's Pearsall Plan seeks to end school segregation. Greensboro attorney J Kenneth Lee filed to enlarge the Montgomery County suit, targeting constitutional amendments statutes and practices that uphold racial separation. It also aims to bring in state officials including State Superintendent Charles F Carroll.
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Luther Hodges
Middle District
J. Kenneth Lee
Greensboro
Montgomery County
Pearsall
North Carolina
Charles F. Carroll
Orchestra of One In Tune Israael? No, Text Refers To Court Case
Robert L. Dieffenbacher uses musical metaphors to describe harmony and discord within an orchestra of society and the potential harm of one out of tune instrument. The article discusses North Carolina education board actions, a Montgomery County suit over school integration, and a request for a three-judge court hearing on a constitutional challenge to the Pearsall Plan and related grants and local option provisions. Lee, a UNC Law School graduate and NAACP member, urges a direct Supreme Court appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Dieffenbacher
NEA
North Carolina Board of Education
Lee
Greensboro
North Carolina
Pearsall Plan
United States
NAACP
Montgomery County
University of North Carolina Law School
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Egypt Charges Britain and France in Canal Crisis
Egypt at the United Nations accuses Britain and France of bearing responsibility for any canal shipping obstruction tied to a walkout of foreign pilots and technicians. Cairo says the Western plan to create a users association for the Suez Canal provokes war and questions the legality of foreign staff leaving.
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Cairo
Egypt
U.N
Britain
France
Security Council
Omar Loufti
New York
Port Said
Foreign Office
Egyptia
Britain defies Nasser as Lloyd vows canal control stance
In a Commons emergency debate, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd said the Suez canal users plan has U S backing and framed Britain and France as refusing to yield canal control. He rejected UN involvement and praised British resolve against Nasser while denying claims of pressuring pilots to quit Egypt.
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London
Selwyn Lloyd
Suez Canal Users’ Association
United States
Lloyd
House of Commons
Washington
Dulles
Britain
France
Egypt
Nasser
United Nations
Russia
Eden
Suez
Guy Mollet
Bulgania
Bulgstin
Kolai Bulganin
Anenly
Security Council
Nature Boy Found in Ireland Hen House
Belfast police found a seven year old boy in a hen house at Downpatrick County Down near Belfast. He cannot talk walk or eat human food and has lived reared like a chicken. The boy was discovered after children playing hid and seek entered the hen house beside a cottage occupied by a widow and her two daughters. He has hair that has never been cut or washed and clawlike nails. He is in care of physicians under the NSPCC.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Hugh Ross
Down Patrick
County Down
Ross
National Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Leaf prices ease across Eastern North Carolina belt
Tobacco prices slipped slightly on the Eastern North Carolina belt with losses mainly $1 to $2 as volume varied from light to heavy. Middle belt sales were light with steady to lower prices while South Carolina and Border North Carolina markets showed lower quality offerings and a drop from the season's high.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Federal State Market News Service
Middle Belt
South Carolina
See Dee
Eisenhower Calls GOP to Muddy Campaign for 32 State Tour
President Eisenhower addressed about 500 GOP leaders at his farm urging a nonpartisan push to register voters and campaign nationwide. He warned against writing off any contest and pressed that the party is best for managing government while Vice President Nixon outlined a broad campaign tour beginning next Tuesday.
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Nixon
Eisenhower
GOP
Adlai Opens Campaign Formally in Harrisburg Speech
Adlai Stevenson formally opened his campaign in Harrisburg with a 280000 dollar televised speech to a nationwide audience. He arrived from New York with running mate Estes Kefauver and others, greeted by about 1000 attendees at Harrisburg State Airport and a 10 000 turnout expected at a 50 per plate fund raising dinner at the State Farm Show Building.
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Harrisburg
MH. Stevenson
Stevenson
New York
George M
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Gov. Lander
News- S
Harrisburg State Airport
Chicago
State Farm Show
Pennsylvania
Stevenson and
Kefauver
Carolinas Construction Boom Seen Through 1957
Charlotte report from Robert Patten of the Associated General Contractors says Carolina builders anticipate a rising construction volume in 1956 and 1957 with federal highway work accelerating. He notes shortages of skilled workers and high wages as a key challenge while predicting more buildings utilities and homes to serve a growing population. Patten named industry officials headed for a Milwaukee meeting to discuss the boom.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Robert Patten
Associated General Contractors of America
North Carolina
South Carolina
Milwaukee
Patten
Carolinas Agc
Frank P. Morris
Greenville
S.C
Charles H
Shaw Jr
Mackenzie
Irwin Kahn
W. B. Higgins
United States Would Sail Around Suez If Blocked
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States would avoid force and divert ships around Africa if Egypt blocks the Suez Canal. He offered dollar loans to friendly nations to cushion costs and urged Egypt to reconsider its opposition to a user association. The plan was supported by British Prime Minister Eden and discussed with Eisenhower.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Suez Canal
Egypt
Africa
U. S
Eden
Britain
France
Anthony Eden
James C. Hagerty
White House
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Hagerty
Robert Menzies
Australia
Menzies
Nasser
Suez
Cairo
Hussein
Users’ Association
Canal
Britain Blames Israel for Frontier Incident
London accused Israel of violating cease fire assurances after preliminary British reports said nineteen Jordanians were killed and three wounded in clashes along the frontier. The Foreign Office said the incident occurred on the Jordanian side and will be investigated by the armistice supervision authorities.
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London
Britain
Israel
Foreign Office
United Nations
Palestine
Jordan
Division Will Test Effectiveness at Fort Campbell and Fort Bragg
A new division will be tested in four phases through March 7 at Fort Campbell Kentucky and Fort Bragg North Carolina. Elements of the division in the Continental Army Command with HQ at Fort Monroe Virginia amount to about 11 500 men. The unit is organized into five combat forces with light compact weapons designed for loading in aircraft.
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Ft. Campbell
101St
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Airborne Warfare Center
Continental Army Command
Ft. Monroe
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U.S
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Ireland
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Adlai Stevenson
Rosemary Plesset
Pittsburgh
Estes Kefauver
Pennsylvaaia
George M. Brader
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